I went to System Settings - File Associations and don't see "mp3" nore "wav" in audio.
I prefer having all my audio opened in VLC (for now; not used to Amarok yet) but don't see where I can set this.

in Dolphin right click a mp3 -> open with -> type VLV -> remember ..... -> ok

thanks!
one more thing though - when I do a search with Catfish and then click on "open" after finding a certain mp3, it still opens in Amarok.
On top of that it's not GUI Amarok, but I have to go in terminal and do "top" to kill Amarok. if I want it to stop.
Is there a way to get the same VLC-association there?

Catfish is a Gnome app so maybe it uses the mime types as defined by Gnome - no idea. You could try opening Nautilus and doing a right click -> open with -> ................... and see if that works

what do you mean by "not GUI Amarok"? it plays but the gui does not show?

google01103 wrote:Catfish is a Gnome app so maybe it uses the mime types as defined by Gnome - no idea. You could try opening Nautilus and doing a right click -> open with -> ................... and see if that works

what do you mean by "not GUI Amarok"? it plays but the gui does not show?

I don't have Nautilus, only Dolphin (Linux Mint-KDE version).
Yes, Amarok plays but isn't visible at all.
It's only when I type "top" in terminal that I see that it's Amarok that is playing.

re Amarok: maybe it be it opens minimized and is in the system tray hidden ?
if not can you open a thread under Amarok regarding music plays but gui not showing (if you care)

re Catfish: what search app is being used? Might depend on what search backend you're using (Tracker, find, locate or other), If Tracker does it have a settings dialog that designates default apps for particular mime types when you open the actual Tracker app?

google01103 wrote:re Amarok: maybe it be it opens minimized and is in the system tray hidden ?
if not can you open a thread under Amarok regarding music plays but gui not showing (if you care)

re Catfish: what search app is being used? Might depend on what search backend you're using (Tracker, find, locate or other), If Tracker does it have a settings dialog that designates default apps for particular mime types when you open the actual Tracker app?

Amarok is indeed in the tray; sorry I didn't notice that before
Catfish has options for find and locate. I don't know really what/where KDE's search function is - should've aksed that first before downloading Catfish probably
I did see a search option in Dolphin, but wasn't impressed by what it couldn't find - Catfish had it straight away.

in Catfish are you using find or locate?
- if locate there's a kio-locate http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17201, locate's db is by default updated once daily iirc
- if find there is a kfind app http://userbase.kde.org/KFind, find is a dynamic search meaning it goes thru the entire folder structure to find what you want each time you look

the problem with VLC and music collections is there isn't a collection manager included

google01103 wrote:in Catfish are you using find or locate?
- if locate there's a kio-locate http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=17201, locate's db is by default updated once daily iirc
- if find there is a kfind app http://userbase.kde.org/KFind, find is a dynamic search meaning it goes thru the entire folder structure to find what you want each time you look

the problem with VLC and music collections is there isn't a collection manager included

I always use find.
In Catfish I can choose the kind of file, eg music, without specifying extensions mp3 or flac or so.
In Dolphin I don't see this option - "file" nore "content" seem to work that way.
The Kfind you mention is, I guess, this "search" from within Dolphin?
Although I see it in Edit, not in Tools as Kfinds site suggests.

About VLC, that is just a matter of habit; I mostly play music in mocp in terminal.
I will take a closer look at Amarok soon too.
Thanks for your replies btw

Kfind is a standalone app, in an KDE 3.x it was also embedded in Konqueror, in the contents tab you can specify file type

try running in Konsole & ignore the output

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

does this help with Catfish?

google01103 wrote:Kfind is a standalone app, in an KDE 3.x it was also embedded in Konqueror, in the contents tab you can specify file type

I installed kfind but will have to look at how it works exactly.
I tested looking for "chega" and also "chega*" in my music directories including subdirs.
Nothing... but I know there's quite a few versions of "Chega de Saudade" there.
That's what is so easy in Catfish: search "chega", filetype: any audio, in folder x plus subdirs and it will find them all.
Not that I absolutely need to hang on to Catfish; it's just that's it's so intuitive to use.
Kfind will have me searching for a manual

google01103 wrote:try running in Konsole & ignore the output

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kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental

does this help with Catfish?

That would put my Dolphin settings back to the defaults perhaps?
Not exactly what I had in mind to do
What would it possibly do to Catfish?

it rebuilds the system config cache which sometimes fixes things, maybe your Catfish mp3 file opening (or not)
will not affect your Dolphin settings

google01103 wrote:it rebuilds the system config cache which sometimes fixes things, maybe your Catfish mp3 file opening (or not)
will not affect your Dolphin settings

I get a lot of stuff like this:

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kbuildsycoca4(7639) KConfigGroup::readXdgListEntry: List entry zz-application/zz-winassoc-xls in "/home/ludo/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list" is not compliant with XDG standard (missing trailing semicolon).

and Catfish behaves the same.